House of No More
Performances Begin January 3 at P.S. 122

"Theatre of images for the new century is born: rapid, without concessions, violent and consuming itself at 100 miles an hour." -- Le Télégramme, France

After extensive international and national touring in 2002 and 2003, Caden Manson/Big Art Group returns to New York with the eagerly anticipated premiere of House of No More at P.S. 122 with previews beginning Saturday, January 3. The company, headed by Caden Manson, enters the next phase of their innovative short-circuiting of live theatrics and simultaneous cinematics. Directed by Manson with text by Jemma Nelson, House of No More is produced by Diane White, whose past credits include Big Art Group’s acclaimed Flicker, Reza Abdoh's Tight, Right, White, and Richard Foreman’s Now that Communism is Dead, My Life Feels Empty and Hotel Fuck.

In trouble and hunted, Julia chases after the truth of her missing daughter. As her search reveals a maze of lies, deceit, and catastrophe, the questions about herself and her world fuse into a disastrous awakening. House of No More is a panoramic performance piece using live video layering, green screen technology, dense sound design and split-second choreography. As the story unfolds on stage, the performers layer together live video feeds to create a "real time" film projected across the stage. Exploding performance and simulation in its idiosyncratic mix of hysterical precision, Big Art Group constructs a disturbing, ridiculous, spastic transmission.

House of No More features direction and video installation by Caden Manson; text and sound by Jemma Nelson; costumes by Machine; lighting by Jared Klein; additional video by Rob Roth; and performances by Big Art Group.

Caden Manson/Big Art Group was founded in 1999 by Caden Manson. Big Art Group uses the language of media in a unique narrative form while pushing the formal boundaries of theatre, film and visual arts to create culturally transgressive and challenging new works. Its goal has been to develop innovative performances using original text, new and exacting uses of technology, and surprising methods of communication and has produced four new major works, CLEARCUT, catastrophe (1999), The Balladeer (2000), Shelf Life (2001), and Flicker (2002). For the past two years, Big Art Group has toured Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, France, Ireland and major arts centers in America including the Walker Arts Center, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and the Warhol Museum.

House of No More is co-produced by the Festival d’Automne à Paris and Théâtre Garonne; co-commissioned by PS 122 and The Wexner Center for the Arts in partnership with The National Performance Network; and with major support by the Rockefeller Foundation MAP Fund and Arts International’s DNA Project. It runs Jan. 3 - Feb. 1, Thur. - Sat. at 8:30pm and Sunday at 5pm. Tickets are $17. P.S. 122 is located at 150 First Avenue at 9th St. (accessible from the #6 at Astor Place or the L at First Avenue.) For tickets and information call 212-477-5288 or visit ps122.org or bigartgroup.com.